Action Movies OBrien Harvey
Action Movies OBrien Harvey Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. 1…
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Action Movies OBrien Harvey
Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. 1 (2003), Taken (2008), and The Expendables (2010). It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films like Kill Bill Vol.
It is a cinema of the will, configured as a decisive reaction to untenable circumstances. The action genre is a fusion of form and content: a cinema of action about action. Action heroes take up arms against the sea of troubles that beset them, safe in the knowledge that if they don't do it, nobody will.
Though this makes the action movie profoundly disturbing as an embodiment of moral